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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Moon
Cloud
Floating
Riding
Shore
Slow
Clouds
Lows

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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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